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Sunday, December 8, 2019

Mixed bag of a weekend

©2019 Barry Smith - Annealed leaf forms in the cooling basin that I used earlier to clean a paint brush I inked the Christmas tree with - lovely colour!!!
Art or rather creativity took a few different forms over the weekend. Most of Saturday was spent doing repair and maintenance painting in the house; another rehabilitated Christmas tree was delivered; our bronze sculpture was cleaned and waxed; another rusty sculpture repaired; and I almost got ten leaf forms completed for the commission I'm working on.

First that tree - gorgeous colour don't you think?

©2019 Barry Smith - Gorgeous plum ink coloured tree
And there was heaps of badly flaking rust to be removed from the sculpture.

©2019 Barry Smith - There was so much flaking rust that I managed to harvest a couple of small bags so that Fiona and a friend can use the rust in dyeing
The leaf forms went through a pretty typical cycle - I'm up to the stage of forming the stems and then grinding and polishing.

©2019 Barry Smith - Folded silver-plated brass blanks 
©2019 Barry Smith - I decided to make the stem cuts with a saw to get a more accurate finish
©2019 Barry Smith - Marked up ready for cutting
©2019 Barry Smith - I used the guillotine to cut the leaf shapes including chipping around the corner near the stem
©2019 Barry Smith - Hammered and ready for opening
©2019 Barry Smith - Opened - now to form the stems
I'm hoping to install the leaves Tuesday of next week.
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4 comments:

  1. Liz ADecember 9, 2019 at 12:01 AM

    I suspect a video (long form) of your leaf making would be mesmerizing ...

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  2. Mo CrowDecember 9, 2019 at 1:47 AM

    love your wooden xmas trees and look forward to seeing these leaves in place!

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  3. Liz ADecember 11, 2019 at 11:04 PM

    love that plum color ... much like the favored magenta crayon in my childhood Crayola box

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  4. BarryDecember 20, 2019 at 5:42 PM

    Hi LA and MC - you are such delights in spending time to offer comments. LA - I would like to make a video but it always seems to be down the list of priorities. Isn't it lovely that clouds can be associated with times of joy. MC - the wooden Christmas tree belonged to a friend - my colouring of it was simply a favour to give it a new life. Peace and joy. B

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